FYI, in Malaysia with local prepaid cards for mobile phones (GSM or UMTS
standard) it is possible to make very cheap international calls.
With the Maxis prepaid card I used, phone calls to Europe cost less than
RM 0.30/minute (= less than 6 Euro cents/minute), i.e. essentially
peanuts. Was very surprised after I checked the card balance after a 7
minutes international call.
This was the case with the Maxis prepaid card, but it's quite likely
that the other operators in Malaysia (Celcom, Digi, TMTouch) also apply
similar prices for international calls.
Mobile data services were available with the Maxis prepaid card, i.e.
you can for instance use the mobile phone as an Internet modem for a
notebook. At 1 cent of a RM per KB pricing was however ridiculously
high. 1 MB of data costs RM 10 = 2 Euro.
I used the mobile data services a few times to check my email with the
Magic Mail Monitor software, which allows you to check the mailserver
content without having to download the emails, when there was no
Internet cafe nearby or I just quickly wanted to check the emails in the
hotel late in the evening without losing time walking to an Internet
cafe etc.
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Alfred Molon
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